Church Of St Andrew

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SK3487SW UPPER HANOVER STREET 784-1/22/725 (West side) 28/06/73 CHURCH OF ST ANDREW United Reformed Church and attached hall, wall & railing (Formerly Listed as: UPPER HANOVER STREET Presbyterian Church of St Andrew)

GV II

United Reformed church and adjoining hall, boundary wall and railing. 1855-56, the interior refitted c1945 following bomb damage, with mid C20 additions. By Flockton & Son. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, that to the nave steep pitched. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south-west tower and spire, vestry and elders' rooms, hall. EXTERIOR: pointed arch windows throughout. Chamfered plinth, buttresses, coped gables, windows with hoodmoulds. Chancel has no external features. Nave west gable has a 5-light window with Geometrical tracery and sillband and below, 3 small lancets. South aisle has three 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery and flat heads. North aisle, 4 bays, has 3 similar windows and to right, a moulded doorway with single shafts and a crocketed gable. South-west tower, 3 stages, has gabled diagonal buttresses and string courses. First stage has to west a moulded doorway with shafts and a crocketed gable with finial. Canted second stage has chamfered diagonal buttresses and a single slit light to east. Bell stage is an octagonal lantern with 8 steep-gabled lancet openings. Octagonal spire has 2 tiers of lucarnes with cusped trefoil openings. 2 storey vestry and elders' rooms has to north a single lancet and to its right a 5-light flat-headed mullioned window. Below, a segment-headed chamfered doorway dated 1856, and to its right, two 2-light mullioned windows. Hall entrance, to south-east, has a moulded Tudor style doorway with a lintel inscribed "St Andrew's Hall". INTERIOR: chancel has triple rebated arch with hoodmould and triple shaft imposts, and flat ceiling. Nave has 3-bay arcades with chamfered arches and octagonal piers with foliate capitals. Flat ceiling and plain clerestory windows. At the west end, a C20 gallery with a segmental pointed door at each end. Aisles have lean-to roofs with struts and tracery and single segmental pointed doors at the east ends. North aisle has a similar door at the west end. Hall has an arch braced roof, now ceiled in. Fittings include a stained glass window, 1963 by Donald Robertson and another, 1962. Octagonal oak font on stem, 1941. Other fittings 1953. Memorials: include marble war memorial tablet in Classical wooden surround. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, at the west end, coursed squared stone terrace wall with chamfered coping, carrying a spiked wrought-iron railing with an off-centre gate. (Flockton & Son--perspective drawing).

Listing NGR: SK3438587000

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.